Summary:

This legal document contains the Executive Summary of Vietnam’s submission to the CLCS regarding the information on the limits of Vietnam’s continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles in the Central area of the South China Sea (marked as VNM-C), submitted on July 17th, 2024. This submission was made fifteen years after the country’s partial submission in the northern region of the South China Sea (VNM-N) and Joint submission between Malaysia and Vietnam in the southern part of the South China Sea (VNM-S). The area subjected in this partial document is illustrated in Figure 1 (p.4) attached below.

Noticeably, on the cover of the submission, the year of submission is indicated as “2009,” which suggests that Vietnam implies this partial submission is a continuation to the previous two submissions made by the country in 2009.

• Document: Vietnam’s Partial Submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in Respect of the Central Area (Executive Summary)
• Related Documents:
  • Vietnam’s Partial Submission to the CLCS in Respect of the Northern Area of the South China Sea
  • Vietnam-Malaysia Joint Submission to the CLCS in Resepct of the Southern Area of the South China Sea